Alienism is a Return to the OT Shadows

In the old and worse covenant if one desired to be part of the people of God one was required to have some kind of attachment to Israel. To have the one true religion meant being in some way attached to the one people of God. Women, in some few instances, could join Israel via marriage. Even this was an exception to the norm. Men could eventually come into the sanctuary of Israel but they could never own land since the land belonged to the blood Hebrews.

In the NT though, and the new and better covenant, members do not have to leave their people in order to attach themselves to the one true God. Instead, as all nations are discipled, all nations in their peculiar expression as a particular people can now be a Christian people serving the one true God.
The Alienists, in their insistence that once one is regenerated, one loses all their previous national attachment and so is free to disregard their ethnic identity because they are now Christian, are returning to a OT ethos where in order to belong to God one must be attached to a singular one people. In the OT that one people was the Hebrew tribe. In the Alienist worldview that one people is the Christian tribe. In making this one for one correspondence the Alienists have lost the NT theme that the Gospel goes to the nations and the nations in their particularity, all will become to God what Israel was alone to God in the OT.

The Alienists have thus errantly imported an OT shadow into the NT fulfillment. The Alienist desires to collect all converts into a New Christian World Order uni hybrid people. The Alienists lose the theme that the nations, in their unique national identities all stream to the mountain of the Lord (Isaiah 2:2 and Micah 4:1). The Alienist lose this same theme fulfilled as witnessed in Revelation 21 where we see the nations entering into the new Jerusalem nation by nation.

In the Alienist vision that is so promoted today in the NAPARC churches the nations lose their identities as particular nations because for the current Alienist (unlike their Kinist Christian forebears) conversion/regeneration means that all colors are allowed to bleed into one. This is the vision long held by the Marxists/Cultural Marxist. Now, it may not be the intent of the Alienists to have fallen into this Marxist paradigm. It may be the case that they have the best of intentions but the bottom line is that they are going back to the OT shadows when the NT teaches that the church is no longer a uni-polar people as it was in the OT but now is a multi-polar people with all the distinctness that necessitates.

Insisting that belonging to the Church means that your God given particularity of ethnos/race is given up and now can be bred out via inter-racial marriage is the same error that was pursued at Babel. It may be even a worse error since at least at Babel they were not pretending that such behavior was God pleasing.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

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